The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Tropical50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Osmanthus
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readBright tropical fruit-floral. The opening is a soda-pop blast of pineapple, pear, and black currant cut with a lemony lift, with osmanthus pulling the fruit toward apricot. The heart softens into a clean white-floral bouquet — jasmine and lily of the valley laced with freesia and a touch of rose — while the apricot lingers like jam on the edges.
The dry-down lays the fruit on a cushion of vanilla, cedar, and musk, with oakmoss giving a faint green spine that keeps the sweetness from going syrupy. It reads picnic-bright and uncomplicated — warm afternoons, summer denim, the kind of thing that cheers up a desk.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.